September 2013
Fall Arts Preview 2013: Film Festivals
It’s the perfect time to dive back into dark movie theaters. Here are several good reasons to do so
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST The theme of this year’s Seattle Design Festival is “Design in Health”—which, thankfully, has been interpreted loosely for the featured film screenings. The lineup includes recent documentaries on such diverse topics as a 1960s commune, a wind-powered home and the first park built exclusively for parkour. Also on the bill are films about…
Fall Arts Preview 2013: Music
Fall offers a veritable satellite radio of music choices to match every mood
A CAPPELLA Experimental vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth earns automatic points for its excellent name. In addition, the group combines Tuvan throat singing with yodeling and pop-style belting, and one of the members is composer Caroline Shaw, who took home the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for music. We call that a win-win-win. 9/19. 7:30 p.m. Prices…
Fall Arts Preview 2013: Dance
This season’s dance performances aim to change your perspective
Choreographers always seem to see life from a different angle, and that’s nowhere more apparent than in this fall’s lineup of dance performances. In Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s “Emergence” (11/8–11/17. Pacific Northwest Ballet; pnb.org), black-clad dancers emerge from a dark tunnel to swarm and flit across the stage, moving alternately like leggy spiders and insects…
Fall Arts Preview 2013
All the fall arts must-sees and must-dos that are worth adding to your calendar
The best part about art—be it a painting, dance, play, book, film or rock show—is that it has the power to change your perspective, maybe on something small, such as earthworm mating rituals, or maybe something conceptually huge, such as what sort of bodies make for excellent dancers. Free your mind and let the season’s…
Happy Anniversary, Ivar’s!
A few bits of trivia from the just released Ivar's Seafood Cookbook
As Ivar’s marks 75 strange and successful years bringing seafood, marketing mania and fishy wordplay to Seattle, we reel in a few delicious bits of trivia (do you know which one isn’t quite true?) from the just released Ivar’s Seafood Cookbook: The O-fish-al Guide to Cooking the Northwest Catch (Sasquatch, $29.95). 1. Haglund convinced a…
The Best Lingerie Shops
While clothes can make the woman, it’s what’s underneath that can make her feel great. Downtown’s Nancy Meyer (1318 Fifth Ave.; 206.625.9200; nancymeyer.com) has been providing tasteful underpinnings for 35 years and was one of the first boutiques to introduce European brands such as La Perla and Eres to the United States. Nancy Meyer is…
Best Shops for Aroma Retail Therapy
Aromatherapy is a proven component of feeling good, as is self-pampering in the form of scented soaps, fragrant lotions and soothing candles. Ted Kennedy Watson has been a purveyor of such simple extravagances since he opened his first store, Watson Kennedy Fine Living, near Pike Place Market in 1998. His second store, Watson Kennedy Fine…
Tolerating Our State’s Gray Areas
Knute Berger tracks progress in Seattle’s messy legal margins
This month, Gray Matters takes up the subject of gray areas. Seattle is a tidy city for the most part, without the huge slums and decay of some older cities. But for all our Scando-Asian embrace of neatness, it is not so much our sense of order that defines us but rather along our messy…
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Cheap Eats: Chico Madrid [CLOSED]
Wide open and airy, teensy Chico Madrid is such a happy place that it’s hard to know where to begin. With the tuna bocadillo on Columbia City ficelle (like baguettes, but narrower; $8), with its singing high notes of preserved lemon and its creamy house-made aioli? Or the sangria ($6), punchy, citrusy and just right,…
Restaurant Review: Bar Sajor
Delicious improvisation or creative license? Deconstructing Matt Dillon’s latest restaurant
There are two broad schools of thought when it comes to modern cookery. On the one hand are the modernist cooks, whose use of molecular gastronomy techniques and equipment—immersion circulators, sous vide machines, agar-agar and so on—can make diners feel like they’ve been rocketed into outer space. That plate dotted with what looks like blackberry…
The Best Under-the-Radar Shops
Discovering a new (to you) shop is like being a tourist in your own city. The excitement that comes from finding a store that has gone undetected by your retail radar means that a whole world of wardrobe possibilities is ripe for the buying. Our pick for best under-the-radar shops is Endless Knot (2300 First…
Home Decor Stores We Love
Whether you’re into brand-new, modern style or love the heavy patina of vintage pieces, Seattle and its environs have plenty of stores to help kit out your pad. Davenport (Madison Park, 1137 34th Ave.; 206.454.7582; davenportmadrona.com), the newest project by cousins and business partners Dustin Nelson and Erica Sheehan, owners of nearby Hitchcock Madrona, is…